The decade-old rivalry between UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones and former champion Daniel Cormier has been reignited after Jones disrespected Cormier’s reign during his time away from the division.
Jones was responding to a fan’s comment. response As for him, probably [heavyweight] Split. “
Soon after, Jones also responded. remarks On the UFC holding an interim championship after being absent due to injury recently:
“UFC is a great company and they did everything they had to do to save the event,” Jones said. He also added a jab at Cormier’s title reign, implying that the now-retired fighter isn’t actually the true champion.
“I agree with you too,” he told fans. “It definitely confused a lot of British fans,” he said of British fighter and interim champion Tom Aspinall.
”[It] It gave them the right to think that their boy was truly a champion. I remember when DC was the “champion” while I was gone. ”
“Even though they look the same, they are not the same. [Jones] When I was the champion, I couldn’t participate. He was not allowed to compete. ”
Cormier reluctantly responded a few days later on Jones’ YouTube channel, insisting that comparisons between his time as a champion and his time as Aspinall weren’t the same.
“Even though they look the same, they are not the same. [Jones] When I was the champion, I couldn’t participate. He was not allowed to compete because he was not injured, but because an illegal substance was detected in his system, that’s the truth,” Cormier explained.
“When he and I were fighting and he kept causing trouble, he couldn’t say ‘I’m back in the gym’ or ‘I’m ready to fight.’ That was impossible. That’s illegal. That was the problem.”Things change, that’s why things are different, and that’s a very important factor in why things are different. ”
Cormier described Jones as a manipulator who is very good at using “subtle tricks” to distract fans from the real issue.
“Jones, it wasn’t the same thing, bud. So no matter how fast you are or how good you are at being a magician and manipulating or saying this or that, that’s not the case. That’s not the case. It was different, you couldn’t do it.” Whenever I was fighting, I couldn’t compete, and I couldn’t really make the decision to fight because I’d been champion for so long. That’s kind of crazy. ”
The rivalry goes back to their earliest days. battle of 2015where Jones defended the light heavyweight belt from Cormier, then defeated Cormier again. 2017.
During that time, Jones had his belt stripped twice for conduct and substance abuse charges, and a second victory was also overturned for metabolite charges.
This back-and-forth antics led to Cormier holding the light heavyweight title multiple times from 2015 to 2018 before relinquishing the belt in December 2018. win the heavyweight title At the beginning of the year. Jones then regained the vacant light heavyweight title and won the heavyweight title after Cormier retired after two losses.
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